2009

Blogging Together: An Examination of Group Blogs

Hearst, M.A. and Dumais, S. "Blogging Together: An Examination of Group Blogs", Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, AAAI Press (2009).

Abstract

This paper presents the first examination of the growing phenomenon of multi-author, or group blogs. Using a large collection of blog posts gathered over an eight month period, we conducted some quantitative assessments. Multi-author blogs were found to differ significantly from single-and-two author blogs on several quality metrics, including having longer posts on average and being ranked higher according to an in-link metric. Visualization of patterns of posting revealed that individual authors often dominate the posts in multi-author blogs, and that in some cases tags are shared, but usually not extensively.

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